Regulation on the Requirment to Register Details of Prepaid Mobile Telecommunications Services Subscribers 4.4. Where, after obtaining TRA approval for electronic verification referred to in section 6.1.3, an Affected Licensee allows subscribers a means for self-registration, whereby subscribers provide their Full Name and Identification Credentials electronically, Affected Licensees must verify the authenticity of subscriber details by interfacing with the appropriate Government authority in the Kingdom of Bahrain that has the capability to verify the supplied subscriber information. 4.5. Notwithstanding section 4.4, Affected Licensees may additionally collect the minimum subscriber details required by section 4.2 through manual procedures (i.e. physical/visual verification of identification), in a similar manner to section 4.6. 4.6. For subscribers that cannot be verified electronically, Affected Licensees must acquire and verify at one of their authorized points of sale a physical copy of the official document holding the subscriber's Identification Credentials. 5. Service Activation 5.1. Affected Licensees that activate any new prepaid mobile telecommunications service to any subscriber without first verifying the submitted subscriber details, are hereby deemed in material breach of this Regulation and Section 78 of the Telecommunications Law, and therefore subject to regulatory action pursuant to of Section 35 of the Law 6. Implementation 6.1. The Regulation is implemented as follows: 6.1.1. Affected Licensees shall by 31 August 2008 prepare and have approved by TRA all necessary processes, procedures, plans to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Regulation, including creating a Clean Subscriber Database and training of their respective distributors and resellers. 6.1.2. The processes, procedures and plans referred to in section 6.1.1 must be realistic, efficient and effective to achieve a Clean Subscriber Database by 31 December 2008. 6.1.3. Any manual verification of subscriber details must be implemented and maintained until such a time that TRA approves any proposed means of electronic verification. 6.1.4. As of 1 September 2008 Affected Licensees shall ensure that no prepaid mobile telecommunications service is activated before a Ref: LAU/0708/203 Telecommunications Regulatory Authority Issued: 28 Rajab 1429 A.H. (31 July 2008) Page 4 of 6